In the essay “The Uncommon Life of Common Objects” by Akiko Busch she states that objects tell stories more eloquently than people. She gives the example of FBI agents taking an assortment of physical objects from the Staten Island landfill where debris still resides from what used to be the World Trade Center. These FBI agents were at the landfill for months pouring over rubble in order to collect more information as to the happenings of the towers collapse. And during this time they acquired small mementos such as a globe, a paperweight, pieces of metal and concrete, and an American flag. When this incident became public knowledge families of the victims of 9/11 were outraged by this horrific act. These FBI agents were accused at best of removing evidence from a crime scene and at worse grave robbing. The reason why these people felt so strongly about the agents taking these invaluable objects was because they were the last things that their loved ones either saw or touched so it wouldn’t be right for someone who didn’t even know them to have a piece of something that was not rightfully theirs. This argument can be said for Joel Sternfeld’s photograph of Warren Ave which uses it objects to clearly express its message unlike Pepon Osorio’s Badge of Honor.…
Unity and Variety. The objects used in this piece are very cohesive. If you did not know the original story, you would not necessarily feel that the objects were out of place. The variety in this work is displayed using the different objects to change the meaning. The broom and the rifle provides contrast and variety. The white cotton balls on the floor with the black fist protruding upward also provides variety to this work.…
The Lost Thing revolves around a creature whom is met with indifference by the rest of society. The bright red colour of ‘the thing’ immediately catches the reader’s eyes, drawing their attention to it thus effectively enabling reader’s to instantly explore as to why the creature is ‘lost’ within an industrialised town unlike it's natural surroundings. This creates a sense of isolation and seclusion which follows the picturesque…
Milkweed, “Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books,” and “ The Guard. This is all about children experiencing life during the Holocaust. These passage have a lot of difference and similarity about life during the holocaust.…
We are first introduced to a very-observant, jewish-boy, of fifteen in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. He is, in essence, a child. All…
Milkman goes on a journey to escape the difficulties of home and ends up discovering a lot about his families past and being able to return home with a new outlook on life, and how his name molds whom he is. While Milkman is on his journey…
Bread, the accordion, and books may all be simple, meaningless items but not in the “Book Thief.” Throughout the novel, there is a plethora of symbolism that helps the reader savvy the purpose and theme. The three main components, that contain similarities and differences, are bread, the accordion, and books. Although the duration of symbolism in the “Book Thief” by Markus Zusak relates to each other, they also contain differences. Overall, bread, the accordion, and books share similarities and differences.…
This is a movie about a young boy, Bruno, who’s father is a nazi soldier. When his family moves to Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence, where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. This movie is about how adversity between two groups of people can still be over looked, in the eyes of a child. Bruno soon finds out that Shmuel is jewish, but Bruno does not share the hatred of jews that his father possesses.…
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was written by John Boyne, and publish by David Fickiling, Random House Children books, in September 2006. It is a historical fiction book written about events that occur during World War II. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is emotional and motivating. The plot of the story is about Bruno, a nine year old boy who grew up in Berlin during the World War II era. He lived with his parents, 12 year old sister Gretel, and his servant. He faces many challenges and obstacles when he moves to his new house in Auschwitz (Out-With). While new friendships are formed, trust is put to the test.…
Duckweed feed has been found to be a very nutritious feed source for many types of livestock. The fact that duckweed can be fed to animals in its wet form or dried for a more concentrated food source make an efficient, cost effective, harvester a possible attractive product for this market. Traditional Harvesters are economically unfeasible and manual harvesting is very labor intensive for medium to large scale operations. Feed prices can vary drastically due to crop yields, gas prices, and product demand. After the initial investment of the Proskimmer the costs for producing this feed additive would be minimal. There is opportunity for duckweed to be used more as a feed source in coming years to alleviate increasing demand on corn and soy yields.…
About a boy is a novel which follows the lives of two people: Marcus and Will. Marcus is a strange kid who struggles with growing up, he is in need for acceptance outside of his own family, he is searching for his own identity, he is a victim of constant bullying and is suffering with his lack of parental care. Will is the complete opposite to Marcus. He is a 36 year old who is in his own extended childhood, he is searching for his identity not wanting to lose his youth, he ‘prides himself on his cool’ and simply can’t find a way to grow up. It is when these two opposing characters meet that they soon act as catalysts for each other. From their dependence on others they find independence for themselves within one another.…
The Shape of Things, written by Neil LaBute, discovers the deceitfulness and manipulation that symbolizes relationships. It touches the escalating relationship between Adam and Evelyn, who met at an art museum on a college campus. In this scene, Evelyn was attempting to disfigure a statue in the pursuit of making ‘true art’. Adam is as insecure and knowledgeable as Evelyn who is aggressive and devious, freely changes his appearance at Evelyn’s urge. As Evelyn braces her hold on Adam, his emotional and physical development distresses his friends, Philip and Jenny, which soon sparks bottled-up feelings between Jenny and Adam. As Evelyn gives Adam an ultimatum of choosing her or his friends the four of them deal with conflicting desires for approval,…
About a boy is story about Marcus a boy who lives in London. This is a story that tells you how he copes with his life when living with his mother only because she and his father had divorced. Also, the story also tells how Marcus tries to find a guy who’s rich and wants him to marry his mother so that they can live happily without having to worry about money until he finds Will, a 36 year-old guy who acts and behaves the opposite of Marcus as well as does thing that seems to be for Marcus’ age while Marcus, on the other hand, does things that are the same as Will’s age. At the same time, Will finds himself getting into troubles for lying to the SPAT team which is a group about single parents who gets divorced and come to share ideas and stuff to help one another about life and how to cope with these problems that are related to not having a husband or wife. Will’s problem is that he wants to join the group so that he can date and sleep with single mums and joins the organization by pretending that he has a 2year-old son named Ned which later on Marcus finds out that Will doesn’t have a son so Marcus tells Fiona (Marcus’ mother) and then more and more problems will occur especially with Marcus in his school life like hanging out with girls that aren’t well behaved and is against the school which is named Ellie and so on….…
Baluta and some of his family have moved from Liberia in Africa. It is properly a result of a war caused by “blood diamantes”. We are not told which country Baluta moved to, but it’s an English speaking country.…
"The Collector" by John Fowles deals with a man's obsession with a woman that turns to kidnap and eventually death. What attracted me to this book was the unusual topic of obsession and intriguing title. In my review I intend to study how the writer, John Fowles, portrays an obsessive personality - though Frederick's actions, dialogue, and his changing relationship with his obsession Miranda.…